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Ever since he died fighting for the Republican cause in Spain in February 1937, there has been a recurring critical debate about the work of Christopher Caudwell. Indeed, between 1950… Click to show full abstract
Ever since he died fighting for the Republican cause in Spain in February 1937, there has been a recurring critical debate about the work of Christopher Caudwell. Indeed, between 1950 and 1951 there was what came to be known as “the Caudwell controversy” where leading members of the British Communist Party, of which Caudwell was a member, debated in thepages ofTheModernQuarterlywhetherCaudwell was really an orthodoxMarxist or just a bourgeois idealist. Since then, the characterizations have varied to and fro. In 1976 Terry Eagleton seemed to set the seal on the final rejection of Caudwell as a literary critic of any relevance in his damning acknowledgement of his achievement:
Journal Title: Socialism and Democracy
Year Published: 2018
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